otoh, at least XFree86 was working fine using the sis driver... i experimented with the stock gnome of freebsd 5.2 and it sure was a lot faster than the previous ones... also noticed that even root (/) label can use UFS2 now...

FreeBSD has undergone a LOT of changes (for the better) since i first used it (2.x era)... still the best free unix out there...